TY - BOOK AU - Ahn,Elise S. AU - Bahry,Stephen A. AU - Bartholomä,Ruth AU - Elterish,Ablimit Baki AU - Hasanova,Dilbarhon (Dilia) AU - Jensen,Antonia AU - Karabaev,Daniyar AU - Light,Nathan AU - Shegebayev,Maganat AU - Smagulova,Juldyz AU - Terrelonge,Leroy TI - Language Change in Central Asia T2 - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , SN - 9781614516095 AV - P40.5.L542 L36 2016 U1 - 306.440958 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Language policy KW - Asia, Central KW - Languages in contact KW - Linguistic change KW - Linguistic minorities KW - Education KW - Sprachwandel KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Central Asia KW - Language Change KW - Language Planning N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of contents --; List of illustrations --; List of tables --; List of abbreviations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Language Ecology: Understanding Central Asian Multilingualism --; 3. Being Specific About Generalization: Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives in Ethnographic Interviews --; 4. Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey --; I. Language and Nation-State Building --; 5. The Re-Acquisition of Kazakh in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges --; 6. Corpus Building in Kazakhstan: An Examination of the Terminology Development in the Oil and Gas Sector --; 7. Societal Multilingualism and Personal Plurilingualism in Pamir Tajikistan’s Complex Language Ecology --; 8. Language-in-Education: A Look at Kyrgyz Language Schools in the Badakhstan Province of Tajikistan --; 9. The Construction of the Tatar Nation in the Debate About the Introduction of Latin Script in the Republic of Tatarstan --; 10. Language Use Among Uyghur Students in Xinjiang, PR China --; II. Globalization and Language Change in Central Asia --; 11. Language Policies and Labor Migration: The Case of Tajikistan --; 12. English Education in Uzbekistan --; 13. Afterword --; Appendix --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions of socio-cultural capital in Central Asia UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514534 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614514534 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614514534/original ER -